February 5, 2019
Bill, Rick and Group - I've attached an image of the Q's handsome brick station in Leavenworth, KS, dated September 22, 1957. The freight house with the Burlington Logo is on the backside. There must've been quite a lot of traffic in years gone by to have such a large station and freight house. Best Regards - Louis
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL
In a message dated 2/5/2019 4:34:54 PM Central Standard Time, whirt@fastmail.com writes:
Rick,
I had forwarded Dallas' reply to Jim Will who is from Leavenworth.
I received this back from Jim. He is a retired C&NW engineer and long time railroad historian for Leavenworth, Kansas. He said I could go ahead and post this on this list:
“From what I can recall about the Q at Leavenworth is they worked daylight. The main thing for them was Bay State. I do know they got a few switches a day. In the early 60's, this would be a lot of 40 foot boxcar traffic loads with wheat, XF type cars for bag loads and air slides for bulk flour (more bulk loading towards the end). They used a lot of MOP 110xxx XF flour boxcars and also ATSF XF boxcars. Bay State had also leased I think some GATX airslides.
The Q interchanged with the MOP & UP near the Leavenworth Union Depot. The MOP & UP delivered to the Q. I do remember seeing the UP delivering several times 10 car blocks to the Q. I never saw the UP haul any loads from the Q. I think most of the wheat that Bay State used came in on the ATSF. The last ATSF agent (last name Kessinger Jim thinks), told me that the ATSF had a deal to haul in wheat and get flour in return and gave a good rate to Bay State.
The Q also had other customers. Beverly Lumber received lumber on flatcars and boxcars and Bergman Coal got some coal. The Great Western Foundry received coke for making their products. Boxcar loads of paper was delivered to Sacks By the Tracks at 3rd and Choctaw (maybe received a couple of cars a week), and he remembers the Hay track as being used as a team track. Beer also came to town via the Q for Budweiser. At one time the Schlitz warehouse received beer. Most of these were not switched daily, just as needed. “
Bill Hirt
On 2/5/2019 10:58 AM, Rick Keil wrote:
Dallas
Thank you for the information, I am always amazed at how much useful information pops up from just a single question.
With that, I have another, was the switcher assigned to Leavenworth and tied down there? Most of this information is for a friend building a layout with Leavenworth as one of the locations but now I am interested in how the Q operated there too.
Ricky Keil
The loco pictured in Bill's post is the type of engine that was in service when I was there.
I was Freight House Foreman (Yard Clerk, Billing Clerk, BTL / LCL Clerk) in 11worth in the late 1960's - early 1970's, around BN merger time.
I billed cars for the Q and Rock Island occasionally as we were a joint agency for CB&Q / BN, Rock Island, CGW / CNW and we interchanged with the ATSF.
Bay State Milling was the biggest customer at that time and generated several cars (air-slide hoppers of flour) per day. They required several switches at 9:00a, Noon, 3:00p, 6:00p to spot cars. We did hot have much other business except the occasional beer car from Budweiser and a car of lumber now and then.
The job was held by old heads as they were on duty at 9:00am and had switches throughout the day. Between switches they were on the spot, usually cooking something upstairs in the crew quarters. After the last switch of the day they would get the train together and take it ten miles or so across the river to East Leavenworth on the CB&Q mainline. It was an overtime job every day.
Chief Clerk was K T Boucher, Cashier was Bill Drysdale
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